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Plain-English guides on pricing, labour, customers and cash for trade and service businesses. Each one comes with a free calculator.

1 November 2026

Markup vs margin: price a job so you keep what you think you keep

Markup and margin aren't the same. Why a 30% markup is only a 23% margin, how to price a job for the margin you want, and what margin a tradie should aim for.

Every job, worked out for you

Tradies Sidekick reads your Xero and ServiceM8 and works this out every night from your own numbers: for every customer, every member of the team, and the business as a whole.

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